The FDA is Doing it Again!

As if they had nothing better to do, now it is dietary sodium decrease… again! After hundreds of academic articles show that the more dietary salt we consume, the healthier we are, they want to reduce it.

Salt does not increase blood pressure but sugar does. Why are they not reducing sugar? Ahhhhhhh… money of course… at the same time we all get sick from eating too much sugar because SUGAR increases blood pressure, increases your bad cholesterol and triglycerides, causes a host of other problems–including taking a huge role in dementia, Alzheimer’s, and so forth. You find my comment below that I just filed at the FDA a minute ago, including all references to everything I just said.

Please comment at the FDA as well to make sure that the government starts to focus on what makes us sick! I copy-pasted my comment below; feel free to use any part of it for your quick comment. The link where to comment: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FDA-2014-D-0055

Your comment must be short and sweet (hence I used & and not “and”, etc.,); it cannot exceed 5000 characters.

My comment:

Dear Committee,

Dietary sodium reduction causes harm to the healthy and the hypertensive(1). Migraineurs benefit from higher sodium(2). Sugar increases BP(3-7). Salt is an essential mineral that human cells have many channels for. Dietary sodium increase modifies BP by only a few systolic points (2-6), quite insignificant(8).

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About Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Angela A Stanton, PhD, is a Neuroeconomist focusing on chronic pain--migraine in particular--, electrolyte homeostasis, nutrition, and genetics. She lives in Southern California. Her current research is focused on migraine cause, prevention and treatment without the use of medicines. As a forever migraineur from childhood, her discovery was helped by experimenting on herself. She found the cause of migraine to be at the ionic level, associated with disruption of the electrolyte homeostasis, resulting from genetic variations of all voltage gated channels that modulate electrolytes and voltage in the brain, insulin and glucose transporters, and several other related variants, such as the MTHFR variants of the B vitamin methylation process and many others. Migraineurs are glucose sensitive and should avoid eating carbs as much as possible.
She is working on the hypothesis that migraine is a metabolic disease.
As a result of the success of the first edition of her book and her research and findings after treating over 4000 migraineurs successfully world wide, all ages and both genders, she published the 2nd (extended) edition of her migraine book "Fighting The Migraine Epidemic: Complete Guide: How To Treat & Prevent Migraines Without Medications". The 2nd edition is the “holy grail” of migraine cause, development, treatment and prevention, incorporating all there is to know. It includes a long section with for medical and research professionals. The book is full of academic citations (over 800) to authenticate the statements she makes to be followed up by those interested and to spark further research interest. It is a "Complete Guide", published on September 29, 2017.
Dr. Stanton received her BSc at UCLA in Mathematics, MBA at UCR, MS in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, PhD in NeuroEconomics at Claremont Graduate University, and fMRI certification at Harvard University Medical School at the Martinos Center for Neuroimaging for experimenting with neurotransmitters on human volunteers, and is currently studying Functional Medicine. Dr. Stanton is an avid sports fan, currently enamored by resistance training and weight lifting, which she does three times a week with a private trainer. For relaxation (yeah.. about a half minute each day) Dr. Stanton paints and photographs. Follow her on Twitter at: @MigraineBook

2 Responses to Act Now! FDA Comment Period on Dietary Sodium!

After many years on blood pressure medication and staying away of salts, my sodium in my lab 🔬 tests show it was less than the minimum, and that cause other problem, but since I start the High Fat Low Carb life style, and now after eight months, I finally stopped the blood pressure medication while eating salt, how is that?

Salt does not cause hypertension (high blood pressure) any more than migrating birds cause winter…

Sugar is responsible for hypertension only it is the best kept secret–though interestingly it is in every medical manual though the treatment is always the reduction of salt, which never made any sense to me.

Research has shown over and over again that salt has absolutely nothing to do with hypertension but those researchers that tried to publish these findings were only accepted into papers that no one reads or could not publish at all. Major influential papers would never consider publishing an article in support of salt… until The Lancet just in this July/August issue published one article finally that shows the truth: the less salt one eats, the closer one gets to a cardiac death (exponentially so) and the more salt the healthy people eat, the longer they live. Even those with hypertension, if they eat too little salt (less than 1500 mg sodium) there is an exponential acceleration in their death. This article is by subscription only so I cannot share it but here is a link to it so you can rent it or purchase it only know that this article is quite complex.

1) The less salt you eat, the more difficult it is for your kidneys to create electrolyte and your loss of sodium (hyponatrium) causes many problems as a result, including diluted electrolyte
2) Your brain and heart cannot function without salt since salt is responsible for creating the action potential (systolic pressure in heart and brain voltage in the brain)
3) Without salt you are chronically dehydrated and dehydration causes a lot of problems all over your body
4) The less salt you eat, the more glucose (from whatever carbohydrates you eat) takes your cells over causing major electrolyte imbalance leading to insulin resistance

In general, I have been workign with many people with hypertension and the moment I move them on the diet you are eating and have them stop all added sugars, honey and all these goodies and also have them stop starchy veggies and just about all fruits and increase fat–particularly animal fats–they all within 3-4 weeks reduce their blood pressure to normal and can titrate their medications down to zero.

So I congratulate on your great job since you do exactly what I recommend. I personally took the LCHF diet to a deeper level by going on the ketogenic diet. I also trashed all my vegetable oils and eat ONLY animal fat. I write a lot about this since so far it has had major effect on everyone trying it: reversed diabetes, reduced blood pressure to normal, drastic drop in triglycerides, no hunger, more energy, drop in weight if applicable or just in dress size from burning fat (my case), all mental conditions: anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, migraine, seizures, and even some others have completely reversed.

The truth is that salt is essential, animal fats are essential, cholesterol is essential–these we have been denied.

Sugar and sugar substitutes are all toxic and addictive (worse than street drugs… sugar and sugar substitutes should be controlled substances) and they also cause hypertension. Vegetable oils cause major health problems because they replace human fatty acids with vegetable fatty acids and from heat become goo that truly clog arteries, and those eating vegetable oils cannot absorb fat soluble vitamins and minerals that need animal fat, nor can they synthesize vitamin D via the sun without cholesterol. The whole “heart-health” hypothesis is based on academic ego war and financial interest and not human health at all.

I am glad the truth is slowly coming out from under the rug and in via grassroots effort the health pyramid will topple and industries will be forced to make what people buy so eventually all this will change for the better. In the meantime, we have to do what is best for us, so continue your effort and please spread your wisdom so others can follow your example and benefit!